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Show SMOOTH GRAFTER IS . SVIU WOMEN Man With1 Picture Scheme Is Preying Upon the Unsuspecting. Un-suspecting. Residents in the vicinity of tho alphabet- streets in the northeastern section of the city, are being swindled ami annoyed by a clover grnftcr. and numerous complaints com-plaints regarding tho work of tho man have reached tin: police dopartmciiL which is searching for hlni. Tho grafter p a well-dressed and an affable person who. after' ringing the doorbell of the house ho has selected, and Introducing himself as u. representative representa-tive of a. Chicago firm engaged iu tho business of making life,-slzed. natural-tinted natural-tinted enlargements of photographs, offers of-fers to give to tho tenant the sample he Is carrying. All that he asks In return for the gift is that the tenant hang the .picture on tho wall of the homo and tell those who seg It, the name of tho firm' making JL Uo then, asks If thcrp Is not a picture pic-ture about the house that the tonant would like to have enlarged and tinted with water colors o that It will appear life-like. lie Immediately- assures the tenant there Is no cost connected wlth the schenio and that his firm Is doing the work and giving away the completed picture for the advertising value the pic- I mi re will have. In Salt Lake. The fact that there is no expense connected con-nected with the ileal Is Imprcssedsupon the victim time after lime in the man's statement, and no papers are presumed! for signature. The grafter then makes a J request for a picture which is usually forthcoming, "after which ho departs with the statement' that he will return with the proof In about ten days. Returning with the proof" but without the original picture, ho asks tho tcnnntii what sort. of frame is wished, and when! he Is told that no frame is wauled he refuses re-fuses lo leave Jin pi oof. but promises to retiyn the original picture. Beforo ho leaves the house ho Impresses upon his victim that the proof will be finished, as It Is his property, and he then tolls fhe tennnt that he will sell the finished pic- ! lure to some ealoon In tho city where it will he a source, of advertisement (o the firm he Is representing. By this time the woman, who as a rule he always selects for tho swindle, is 1 more than willing to buy any frame he may show. In case the order for the frame Is not forthcoming ho departs but never returns the original picture; lie leaves no address, giving the excuse, that his firm has not as yet established permanent per-manent quarters in this city Tho grafter Is described by hjs victims, who on account of tho notoriety, refuse to give their "names lo the police, as a well-dressed, tall and slender man. with dark curly hair, dark oyes and smooth-shaven. |